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Record Nr.

UNINA9910946479103321

Autore

Dayal Subah

Titolo

Between Household and State : The Mughal Frontier and the Politics of Circulation in Peninsular India

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2024

©2025

ISBN

9780520402379

0520402375

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 pages)

Disciplina

954.025

Soggetti

Borderlands - India - Deccan

Households - India - Deccan

Politics and culture - Mughal Empire - History

HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia

Mughal Empire Politics and government

Deccan (India) Politics and government 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration -- 1. The Household in Connected Histories -- 2. The Military Barrack -- 3. From Court to Port -- 4. The Adorned Palace -- 5. At Home in the Regional Court -- 6. From Battlefield to Weaving Village -- 7. Postscript -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.org to learn more.    Between Household and State departs from dynastic narrations of the Mughal past to highlight the role of elite households and familial networks in peninsular India, the only region of the subcontinent never fully incorporated into the imperial realm. Drawing on rare documentary and literary materials in Persian and Urdu alongside the Dutch East India Company's archives, this book takes readers on a journey from military forts and regional courts in the Deccan to the ports and weaving villages of the



Coromandel Coast. It examines how regional elite alliances, feuds, and material exchanges intersected with imperial institutions to create new forms of affinity, belonging, and social exclusion. Subah Dayal brings attention to the importance of ghar--or home--in the creation of forms of mobility that anchored the Mughal frontier across the variable geography of peninsular India in the seventeenth century.